Improvement in clothes-driers



CHARLES C. SHELDON.

Improvement in Clothes Driers.

Patented Jan.23, 1872.

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CHARLES C. SHELDON, OF RANDOLPH, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH ES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,051, dated January23, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Glothes-Driers,invented by CHARLES C. SHELDON, of Randolph,Oatta-raugus county, NewYork.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the arms horizontal; Fig. 2 is asimilar view, showing the arms hooked up; Fig. 3 is a top view,illustrating the swing of the arms; and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectionof one ofthe arms.

This invention relates to a clothes-drier consisting of a main post, towhich are jointed any desired number of radial swinging arms, which areconnected, in two or more vertical series, with side standards that arearticulated to the outer ends of said arms the inner ends of the samebeing also articulated to the eyes that connect them with the main post,so that the outer ends of the arms can be elevated, and thus carry thestandards in close to the main post when it is desired.

Referring to the drawing, a is the main post aforesaid, the same beingstepped in a foot, I), and having attached to its top a slotted ring, a.The radial arms d, at their inner extremities, are jointed to eyes 6,that sit loosely in grooves in the main post, so that the arms 01 may beswung horizontally in order to place them in any desired positi0nforinstance, all within an arc of ninety degrees-the main post occupyingthe corner of a room. The standards f at the outer ends of the verticalsets of arms d are also jointed to them, so that said standards, byraising the outer ends of the arms, can be swung upward and inward closeto the main post, still preserving their perpendicularity, and thusenabling the apparatus to be closely packed. The standards f arefurnished with hooks g, by connecting which with'the slotted disk 0 thestandards are held in the position last described. The standards arealso provided with casters, so that they can be moved laterally withoutlifting them from the floor. As shown in Fig. 4, the arms d are eachconstructed with a bead, h, along its up per edge, and recesses i alongeach side beneath the bead. This construction causes the f, disk 0, andhooks 9, combined as specified.

CHAS. O. SHELDON.

Witnesses:

Gno. E. BROWN, J. E. HENREY.

